Every time this is proposed I think of all the teachers I know. Women and men that I went to college with, my old teachers, even my mother. These are not the kind of people that I would arm. Mom thinks the people that want her packing have “literal shit for brains” and should be sent back to elementary school because…

Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca liveson the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more…

Yes, when “basketball” is a stand-in for “you are black and therefore you should not be playing hockey.” It’s clearly intended to reference a racial stereotype, and deploying it to taunt and unsettle a black man makes it obviously racist as hell.

As a physician, I wish athletes would stop playing amateur nutritionist (I’m looking at you, Tom Brady and Russell Wilson). I find that portion control and a well-balanced meal, not arbitrary restrictions, are the keys to peak performance.